Think i've been hijacked

Spunj99 · 20 Dec 2006 at 19:45

I had this one day last week, popped up about 5 times in half an hour despite me using no POP3 and everything is fine. I've scanned for viruses, spyware/adware since too and everything is clean.

zetec452 · 20 Dec 2006 at 20:23

you can always try running the following:

netstat -na

That will show you the current connections on your pc and stuff.

marc_howarth · 21 Dec 2006 at 01:10

Deathwish said:
Its also blacklisted

Hi there

What do you mean when you says it's blacklisted??

thanks

silversurfer · 21 Dec 2006 at 01:21

silversurfer · 21 Dec 2006 at 01:25

Fighting spam by finding and listing Exploitable Servers

Its spammed someone or caused trouble so is on a blacklist

apparently Im on there too

Somebody who had the ip temporally 18 months ago did something wrong..

Clarkey · 21 Dec 2006 at 02:52

Hodders said:
This message simply means that AVG is detecting outbound comms on POP3.

P2P sharing sometimes use POP3 ports as the peers sometimes are set up to use POP3 ports as the users are behind a firewall that allows POP3 traffic through.

It is almost certainly OK - unless you are not running P2P in which case run all the spyware/trojan detectors you can find

sometimes get the email scanner thing pop up with my avast when using bit torrent, could be to do with this.

Bean0 · 21 Dec 2006 at 14:39

I used to get that as well, for me it was bit torrent traffic.

Apparently some people configure their clients to use standard email ports to try and get around ISPs traffic shaping, AVG detects these connections, presumes they are email and sets about scanning for virii.

If you have recently been torrenting, trackers could well still be pointing people towards your ip.

In Azureus, you can list ports to ignore...I added 25 and 110 iirc and the AVG box hasn't been back since.

bledd · 21 Dec 2006 at 15:40

14 month old read for the bin..?

please tell me thats a joke

get an xp home cd, format, *bang -newpc

SB118 · 21 Dec 2006 at 20:45

bledd. said:
14 month old read for the bin..?

please tell me thats a joke

get an xp home cd, format, *bang -newpc

Umm? Is this in the right thread? :confused:

bledd · 21 Dec 2006 at 22:17

SB118 said:
14 month old PB lappy, just about ready for the bin really.

adaware found a handfull of tracking cookies, defender doesn't find anything. just rebooting to finish installing NOD32.

beg to differ!

SB118 · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:08

Ahh, didn't have a clue what you were refering to (i've slept since i posted that!)

It's PB build quality. The battery is dead (died after 8 months), some of the pads under the keyboard stick, left click mouse button is duff, power socket is buggered, need to jam the adapter in and if you type too quickly/slam a door/give it a harsh stare/etc the power lead falls out and turns off instantly, DVD burner no longer burns a usable disc at 4x, need to use 2x. Piece of crap.

bledd · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:18

sounds like a perfect remote controlled (vnc etc) download box

SB118 · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:48

It's the main PC in the flat

Other machine is my old celly 466 in the kids room.

osc89er · 24 Dec 2006 at 10:59

SB118 said:
Running Tiscali, but it's basically rebranded BT isn't it?

Nope, Tiscali run their own equipment and their own network. Completely separate from the BT stuff that most ADSL ISPs use.